Two people are being prosecuted for having laundered money to other countries by conducting so-called hawala operations, according to the Economic Crime Authority in Gothenburg.
The crime scheme involves the suspects through a network of intermediaries being suspected of conducting a kind of payment mediation to send money to countries that lack a functioning banking system. This is alleged to have been done without a permit or registration with the Financial Supervisory Authority. The operation is suspected of having turned over millions of kronor before the Economic Crime Authority interrupted it.
The two people are also suspected of, in connection with the payment mediation, having allowed themselves to be used for the purpose of laundering criminal profits. According to the prosecution, the criminal suspicions concern serious accounting crimes and serious money laundering.
